Y-Knot !?

1968

wood & rope 32x46x50cm h 50 cm

Dedicated to Jean-Pierre Jequier, 1968 !!!!!

Dedicated to Jean Pierre Jequier, this piece was completed in 1968 – before the Y/knot motif became ubiquitous.

Sometimes, answering a question with a further question (Why Not ?) is the most appropriate course of action, because there willalways be a better answer, especially in science, an answer that can provide a more convincing interpretation of reality.

The symbol ‘Y’ is also the symbol of androgyny, and of aspiration to immortality. In fact, in ancient representations the Y suggestedarms raised to heaven, reaching out for immortality.

If the love of truth is greater than the need to be right, you should not look for any answers. To know is to find a trivial knowledge.‘Perhaps what we mainly need is some subtle change in perspective - something that we all have missed,’ concludesmathematical physicist Roger Penrose in ‘The Road to Reality’. ‘Fair’, ‘logical’, ‘sure’, and ‘true’ are questionable adjectives.

In fact, sheer reason and logic will only get you so far in a world which appears to be based on paradoxes. Gallileo’s method, forexample, requires that a scientific ‘truth’ be replicable. This is the way science is and should be practised, but does it really bring us‘truths’ ? Or merely an ephemeral attempt at describing events and facts ?!

Also, it would be wrong (and extremely limiting) to exclude other approaches when investigating Alberto Magno indicates the hermeticAndrogynous holding the “Y” symbolof immortality. Michael Maier, Symbola Aurea, Frankfurt, 1617.the exceptional, extraordinary and inexplicable events that do take place. StringTheory posits that there are at least 11 dimensions, if not 26 ! Perhaps some of these collidewith the four dimensions in our world from time to time, and allow things to occur whichbreak the laws of this particular universe ?! In any case, with some phenomena, the moreyou observe, measure, monitor and ‘try to replicate’, the less likely they are to ‘happen’.

Obviously, this premise leaves the field open to quacks and charlatans. Yet the mere factthat a conjurer may be able to mimic an extraordinary, inexplicable event does not signifyper se that real, inexplicable, non-replicable events do not occur.